Ryan arches an amused eyebrow at her. "I'd rather prefer to think that I'm a real being and not just some program run by a computer." That's actually rather creepy, if one thinks about it.

"But philosophers have been asking that sort of question since forever. There really isn't much point fretting over it, I've always thought, since there's really no way to tell."

He should know. He majored in the subject.